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I've been doing basic quality of life improvements in the flat to prep for the dark months, if anyone's got a quirky little item they get or activity they do for themselves I'd love to know it 🥺

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 1h

It would be very funny if the president ends up being so annoying that he causes a reverse Reagan.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 2h

I think the company that owns my apartment has profiled us as childless and under 40 because every time they schedule something to be fixed we get assigned the 8 am or 9 am appointment 💀

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 19h

4/5 Dutch exams passed 😎 waiting on the results on the last one, but then permanent jobs and permanent residency incoming 👀

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 20h

Not advocating AI use, but as a society there are tons of communication structures that are pretty long winded when all they require is a personal acknowledgement or single piece of critical information. A five line email to say I have remembered to be somewhere at 15:00 is unnecessary, but common.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fun part of science is that if you read enough, most problems are already solved, but for whatever reason the solution just isn't popular.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Halloween episodes of Hey Arnold messed me up so badly I couldn't be alone in the house without having anxiety for half a year.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Woke up late on a Monday, only to realise it's early on a Sunday 🙂‍↕️

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wanted to split a big plant into smaller plants, so cleaned years of muck off it meticulously to make sure it survived surgery. Turns out it was already two plants just held together by said muck so that was convenient.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back to the secretly cheap garden centre to further build visual interest in my apartment to justify never wanting to leave it

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week I co-authored a 45 page forensic accounting report, did fieldwork, practised nature connectedness, wrote the methodological framework for my thesis... And I only had one manic episode where I impulsively gambled by buying Miffy Halloween themed blind boxes until I had them all.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We did coursework with a woman who is applying shamanistic practices to the Netherlands after living amongst south American spiritualists for over 20 years. Some of it was very cool! Some of it was... Oh boy toeing the line on what's legally permissible to suggest.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not horny or creative enough to 'tober anything, but godspeed to the rest of yous.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not be too like granola woman, but it looks like a mast year for chestnuts if y'all are looking to get a bushel of free chestnuts on the go.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw a pumpkin themed fondue set and I said to my bf "more like fon-Boo!" and he didn't react so I'm essentially single now

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Big win for being petty: my client's accountant who I absolutely despise is so bad that we'll pass the audit contingent we discontinued working with them.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September/October is the absolute worst time to take a course that requires 5-10 hours of mindfulness a week 💀

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wait did they abandon the crazy third term idea or is that still going?

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way my mental health is held together by the occasional tchotchke

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something super common in ecology discourse and Europe in general is positive racism, especially concerning indigenous people or anyone perceived as indigenous.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why yes, I do use A Dictionary of Color Combinations for my charts and graphs. And yes they are stunning and understated.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Progressives get conservatives elected the same way conscientious objectors stop wars... That is to say they don't, and for largely the same reasons.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At that point of toxic self confidence, where I don't think I'm dumb, I think anything I don't understand is badly explained.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now the boyfriend is playing Ark and he's basically re-enacting a triceratops version of Christine

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chat, is it a good sign when your auditor asks that you change accountants unprompted?

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Switched to wind only electricity and now my bills are 30% cheaper 🙂‍↕️ (still pretty expensive because it's the Netherlands)

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nick Cannon is still making media?!

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The craziest part of scammers is they've been running the same basic scams for 100 years at this point, and it's still economically viable to attempt them.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The further I get into this human-nature relationships course, the further I realise that I am not cut out to be a hippie.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally saw Teenage Sex and Death At Camp Miasma. Definitely a bit of a sapphic kaleidoscope. I would give anything to spend time in an abandoned summer camp with Gillian Anderson tho, even tho the accent was terrible.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking a course on human-nature relationships. I think most progressive people fail because they skip the part where they make a case for their behaviour or make their behaviour attractive. Yes, we should all be more mindful of nature, but that needs prioritisation over everyday life stuff too.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started playing Ark... Made a whimsical band of dodos who all had rhyming names. Then they were all killed by dilophosaurs. Every single one. Now I'm playing Ark with the express purpose of ethnically cleansing all venomous dinosaurs. I'm basically Dodo Batman.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I genuinely don't understand how scalpers stay in business. Like they front the money for something... Ok wait them out. A captive market works both ways.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Conversely, it's equally mind-blowing when there's no English word for a concept, but there is in Dutch. Like the state of a flower as it is no longer aesthetically pleasing, implying it's ready to set seed.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I always find it so crazy when there is a Dutch word for something but nobody uses it. Like the word for meeting.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I like getting into games way after the hype dies down to goof off in peace with a well stocked wiki and no discourse.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Re-watching Community and it really drives home the lengths you will go through to make friends as an adult at a college.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Conspiracy theory: high fuel prices as a form of voter suppression

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting into Esoteric Ebb! 🤓

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Self-determination of nations is good, and countries should be creating a balanced economy. But, the way leadership outside the US discusses it is like your friend that starts going to therapy and realises their boyfriend sucks, when you live with the guy and having been saying this for years.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Usually the nature here is pretty underwhelming, but I got to walk on a floating fen which is super rare and pretty surreal.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like the lifelong secret service protection will really have its work cut out for it, if this current batch of Republicans live past their terms. People are really not pleased to say the least. (Please don't be more extreme than this, it's a public forum 😉)

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh man. Someone I know somewhat personally got their manifesto published, and reading it is has been a delight because it's so intensely awful. 😅

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At a weird point in my life where I don't really read fiction anymore 🤔

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The content of the exam? Easy. The setup was us all talking in a room simultaneously with no dividers, which is the most stressful thing that's ever happened to me.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hopefully last Dutch exam this morning 😬 hardest one: speaking 🥲

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just putting it out there: the CIA intervenes in critical industries all the damn time. If you've ever seen a CEO in DC, you can assume it's a two-way lobbying relationship. C execs only go where there's money or a regulatory issue to solve.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The way finding out someone is queer makes me like them 100% more.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lol the national rail service promised in August to get the trains under control for the boom in September. That didn't happen.

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Jake @tuxedo-tarrask.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Love my bloomfs, but some of you guys need to learn about bedtimes.

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